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15 Mehr 1464
Saturday 15 Mehr 1464 in the Persian calendar is Saturday, 6 October 2085, and 16 Safar 1509 in the Islamic calendar.
This day's Islamic date is not yet officially announced and is an astronomical estimate; it and the day's religious occasions may move by a day.
This day in four calendars
- Persian15 Mehr 1464
- Gregorian6 October 2085
- Islamic16 Safar 1509
- Imperial15 Mehr 2644
- Day of the year201 of 365
- Left in the year164 days
- ZodiacLibra
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Occasions on 15 Mehr 1464
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On this day: October 6
Events
- 1789 (237 years ago) French Revolution: King Louis XVI is forced to change his residence from Versailles to the Tuileries Palace.
- 1884 (142 years ago) The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island.
- 1915 (111 years ago) World War I: Combined Austro-Hungarian and German Central Powers, reinforced by the recently joined Bulgaria launched a new offensive against Serbia under command of August von Mackensen.
- 1934 (92 years ago) Revolution of 1934: The President of the autonomous government of Catalonia, Lluís Companys, proclaims the Catalan State with the support of the Worker's Alliance.
- 1939 (87 years ago) World War II: The Battle of Kock is the final combat of the September Campaign in Poland.
- 1979 (47 years ago) Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
- 1987 (39 years ago) Fiji becomes a republic.
- 1990 (36 years ago) Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-41, and deploys the Ulysses space probe to study the Sun's polar regions.
Births
- 1773 (253 years ago) Louis Philippe I of France,
- 1831 (195 years ago) Richard Dedekind, German mathematician and philosopher (died 1916)
- 1887 (139 years ago) Le Corbusier, Swiss-French architect and painter, designed the Philips Pavilion and Saint-Pierre, Firminy (died 1965)
- 1903 (123 years ago) Ernest Walton, Irish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1995)
- 1906 (120 years ago) Janet Gaynor, American actress (died 1984)
- 1914 (112 years ago) Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian ethnographer and explorer (died 2002)
- 1930 (96 years ago) Hafez al-Assad, Syrian general and politician, 20th President of Syria (died 2000)
- 1931 (95 years ago) Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-American astrophysicist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2018)
Deaths
- 877 (1149 years ago) Charles the Bald, Holy Roman Emperor (born 823)
- 1892 (134 years ago) Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet (born 1809)
- 1912 (114 years ago) Auguste Beernaert, Belgian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Belgium, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1829)
- 1951 (75 years ago) Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1884)
- 1981 (45 years ago) Anwar Sadat, Egyptian colonel and politician, 3rd President of Egypt, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)
- 1989 (37 years ago) Bette Davis, American actress (born 1908)
- 2018 (8 years ago) Montserrat Caballé, Spanish soprano (born 1933)
- 2020 (6 years ago) Eddie Van Halen, Dutch-American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (born 1955)